Re: Brokenness in parsing of pg_hba.conf

Kurt Roeckx wrote:

>For getaddrinfo() it says:
>
> If the nodename argument is not null, it can be a descriptive name
> or can be an address string. If the specified address family is
> AF_INET, [IP6] [Option Start] AF_INET6, [Option End] or AF_UNSPEC,
> valid descriptive names include host names. If the specified
> address family is AF_INET or AF_UNSPEC, address strings using
> Internet standard dot notation as specified in inet_addr() are
> valid.
>
> [IP6] [Option Start] If the specified address family is AF_INET6 or
> AF_UNSPEC, standard IPv6 text forms described in inet_ntop() are
> valid. [Option End]
>
>
>I'm not sure what this really says, but I can read it to either
>use the inet_addr() or inet_ntop() behaviour.
>
>
>
>

I read it to mean that abbreviated forms (via inet_addr()) are OK for
AF_INET but not for AF_INET6 (via inet_pton())

Does anyone else read it differently?

cheers

andrew